"Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy." — William Cowper
"Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy."
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William Cowper
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235 Quotes by William Cowper
William Cowper has 235 quotes on this site.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its…
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More Ecstasy Quotes
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must…
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
— Walter Russell
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism,…
— Martin Seligman
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the…
— Carl Sagan
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